Yearly Archive for 2013

: 2013

Mitt Romney shared some questionable (though, if you’re into that biblical stuff, pretty righteous) advice with a gathering of college grads about how to live a full life. Quoting scripture, Romney, a former Mormon lay bishop, told an audience of Mormon college graduates to “launch out into the deep” instead of ”living in the shallows.” …

A report by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) shows that the plastic surgery procedure of arm lifts are up 4,000 percent in women the past 10 years according to this news release. Upper arm lifts can include liposuction or brachioplasty, in which loose skin is removed from the back of the arms. There …

A public elementary school in Queens, New York, is one of the first in the nation to adopt an all-vegetarian menu, the Associated Press reports. Menu items include things like black bean and cheddar quesadillas with salsa and roasted potatoes, tofu wraps and vegetarian chili. Cheese pizza is also served. The school started out serving …

Okay, there’s global warming and nuclear North Korea and some other big topics out there, but one thing this spring weather has us worried about is the age-old problem of keeping your beer cold. Thankfully, a University of Washington climate scientist decided to tackle the problem and found out that a romantically dew covered bottle …

Turkey, for all its health benefits as a lean protein, harbors a dirty secret. Read on and you’ll wish you could un-learn it. Ground turkey, it turns out, is teeming with fecal bacteria. Consumer Reports says more than half the samples in a just-published study tested positive for poop germs, among other things. And nine …

Update: The story was exposed as a fraud, according to The Independent, which published the original report. The man calling himself U.S. Army Sgt. John Hartley Robertson is believed to be a Vietnamese citizen of French descent who has made a history out of claiming he is a U.S. Army veteran. *** Original story: In …

Dating – it’s a good thing. Martha Stewart, the arbiter of good taste and appropriate table settings, is looking for love, according to her new Match.com profile. The profile “thegoodlonglife,” a divorced 71-year-old woman, declares, “Yes, it’s really me.” She describes herself as an “athletic and toned” exercise junkie, a “social drinker” and “very liberal.” …

It’s tough being a Starbucks barista who has to write customer names on cups. Is it “John” with an “h”? “Thanh Ha” with three “hs?” It’s all part of Starbucks’ effort to personalize things. But one barista got a little too personal, when a customer named Virginia ordered a drink from a Starbucks in Hong …

On Monday morning, NBA center Jason Collins became the first gay athlete to come out while actively playing in one of the four major American sports leagues. In an essay Collins wrote for Sports Illustrated, he declared: “I’m a 34-year-old NBA center. I’m black. And I’m gay.” Collins, who is now a free agent, has …

In the past few years Scientists at the Smithsonian have developed devices to scan old records and convert them into audio files. So for the first time ever we can hear Alexander Graham Bell’s actual voice saying, ‘Hear my voice. Alexander Graham B… …

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